Well, as most of you probably know, botting has grown exponentially in Guild Wars over the last few months. By the latest estimates, over 5,000 players are currently running a popular botting program (that I'm not allowed to mention here) and many of them use more than one account to bot. That's not even counting the absurd number of players who use other botting programs or write their own bots.
This doesn't just affect one aspect of the game. Currently, there are RA (glad) farming bots, raptor farming bots, numerous interrupt bots, gamer point farming bots, Dragon Arena bots, Rollerbeetle bots, spike bots, and soon a full team of HA farming bots.
If this anniversary didn't draw attention to it, I don't know what will. People were selling over 1,000 stacks of Cupcakes in Kamadan at any given moment during the event because of this problem and Codex, RA, JQ, and FA are a mess due to these (soon enough, HA will be too).
If there's nothing you can do, Anet, then admit to it. If you can do something, do it.
tl;dr - /sign if you demand a response on botting from Anet.
Petition to Demand a Response from Anet on Botting
Karate Jesus
Quail Stomp
Yes i would love a response to the bot problem but i still dont think they can do much about it. Im sure if they could stop the bots they would have done it already but i can still hope something will happen. Its killing pvp, pve i dont care much about because its already easy but its still breaking the rules.
BIG OL /SIGN
BIG OL /SIGN
Grunntar
Demand a response...? LOL!
Yawgmoth
Mandatory /signed.
Botting is a highly important issue right now as easy to use bots are free to get and public.
Botting is a highly important issue right now as easy to use bots are free to get and public.
Karate Jesus
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Demand a response...? LOL!
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I've heard that the TK is pushing them on this as well and that they're "supposedly" working on something. I'm still pretty skeptical. I don't think they can do a damn thing, and if they could, I doubt they would.
Penny
/signed ofc !
sixdartbart
Bots and cheating programs have ruined several other games that I've played and I think most games are infested with them, GWs originally didn't have this problem and dealt with any kind of cheating swiftly but it seems they have been overrun as well.
Zero tolerance is the only solution for this and I hope you are doing a better job of keeping them out of GW2 then you are currently doing in GWs.
I would like to hear as well, what happened, did you send everyone who protected GWs from this crap to work on GW2 or did these botter punks just magically get smarter than your game and you can't do anything about them?
Zero tolerance is the only solution for this and I hope you are doing a better job of keeping them out of GW2 then you are currently doing in GWs.
I would like to hear as well, what happened, did you send everyone who protected GWs from this crap to work on GW2 or did these botter punks just magically get smarter than your game and you can't do anything about them?
Hyperventilate
I'd love to hear a response, but I don't think "demanding" is appropriate.
dusanyu
As a member of the PvP Community i /sign without hesitation.
Kityn
How many times does the people at Anet have to say that they ban thousands of bots a month? This has been talked before and is nothing new. They ban thousands a month. And thousands replace them.
aefghuys
/signed ...we beg of u anet
Ravious
All "forcing" them to do will get you some boilerplate about them watching the problem, banning bots, and possibly exploring solutions, or something. If that's what you want, okay.
Bob Slydell
I'm sure we'll get one, but you know exactly the format it's going to be. Here, I'll speak for arenanet:
We are working around the clock to combat botting. We have banned 5,000 accounts this week for botting. If you suspect a bot, please use the report feature and or contact support with the matter.
Thanks.
We are working around the clock to combat botting. We have banned 5,000 accounts this week for botting. If you suspect a bot, please use the report feature and or contact support with the matter.
Thanks.
Karate Jesus
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Originally Posted by Kityn
How many times does the people at Anet have to say that they ban thousands of bots a month? This has been talked before and is nothing new. They ban thousands a month. And thousands replace them.
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Thousands....that's not a joke. Go on the main GW botting forum (again, I can't name it) and you can talk to guys who have been botting on 10+ accounts for over a year and haven't been touched.
The problem is that Anet only catches stupid bots (like the Bergen ones or the JQ ones) and they rely almost entirely on players reporting them. Players can't tell the difference on most of the public bots now because they're too good, and neither can Anet if they don't use any other protocols to catch them besides behavior.
EDIT:Again, I doubt they're doing a damn thing. I just think it's time we let them know that we're sick of it and that we want something done.
Flint Dictus
/signed. Cause the response will display how helpless they are.
Ninja Ninja
/signed, I don't like the drunkard title bot either.
Karate Jesus
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/signed, I don't like the drunkard title bot either.
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Bob Slydell
I still don't understand why they can't update the client to break the injection methods? They managed to break KSMod because some bots were using the same exact method KSMod used, so can't they do a little more coding and stop allowing DLL injections?
Scarlett Romanov
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Originally Posted by Kityn
How many times does the people at Anet have to say that they ban thousands of bots a month? This has been talked before and is nothing new. They ban thousands a month. And thousands replace them.
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They don't care about Guild Wars 1 anymore. They've left it to waste away while they're working on Guild Wars 2. For now it feels like they're keeping GW1 servers running solely so they can make a few bucks out us retards (yes, me too) that keep paying them for novelities like costumes. Its sad, I know, but I can't see them taking great strides to help a five year old game. I want them to come out and do something because I do still enjoy aspects of this game (I spend a lot of time in FA.). so /signed. However, I don't have much faith in them doing anything. Not atleast anytime soon. I can really hope that Guild Wars 2 will be managed better.
If you manage to get a response out of Regina (didn't someone bring up bots to Gaile already?) or anyone, it will be similar to the response this person posted. No offense or anything. Chances are they won't bring the banhammer down this time or do anything remotely good for an old busted game.
Ninja Ninja
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Oh, that reminds me. I forgot to mention that raptor bot users commonly use a chest-running bot to use all the lockpicks they get. So, lucky/unlucky titles + treasure hunter/wisdom are affected as well.
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Aleta
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Originally Posted by Hyperventilate
I'd love to hear a response, but I don't think "demanding" is appropriate.
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I don't believe this game has been abandoned. However with a limited amount of warm bodies to go around I would guess they do the best they can.
Respectfully requesting a response would be better.
Shadar
/signed, although I don't expect anything will actually be done. Prove me wrong anet, please
Mini Vizu
I don't think these bots exist. I haven't seen any. All the W/N players in rata sum respond to me when I say hello.
cosyfiep
ok I will give you the other response from Anet:
we are working on gw2 and have no more resources to put to the game that is currently live....
eg...they aint gonna do anything about it even if you scream and shout until you turn blue.
we are working on gw2 and have no more resources to put to the game that is currently live....
eg...they aint gonna do anything about it even if you scream and shout until you turn blue.
Errant Venture
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Neither do I. Also where do your estimates come from?
I don't believe this game has been abandoned. However with a limited amount of warm bodies to go around I would guess they do the best they can. Respectfully requesting a response would be better. |
capashen
/unsigned let everyone do whatever they want
Essence Snow
/unsigned based on spite(completely underrated btw).....not too keen on demands...rather hear a response on other matters
Crazy monk Cro
/signed ...5000000 of us gave them 200$ for the fcking game...and now they dont whant to bother....seems like they dont give fck about us now when we bought the game...
--------------------GW2---------------------same?!?
--------------------GW2---------------------same?!?
Ninja Ninja
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Originally Posted by capashen
/unsigned let everyone do whatever they want
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Originally Posted by Essence Snow
/unsigned based on spite(completely underrated btw).....not too keen on demands...rather hear a response on other matters
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aspi
What's the use, I think it's a good idea but a bit too late. Let them prefend botting for GW2, who the hell is botting in a dying game anyway?
Mr. Undisclosed
lol who cares.
merek
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Originally Posted by Mini Vizu
I don't think these bots exist. I haven't seen any. All the W/N players in rata sum respond to me when I say hello.
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/signed
ps: There must of been thousands farming cupcakes this past anniversary.
Mesmers Are Bad
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Originally Posted by Essence Snow
/unsigned based on spite(completely underrated btw).....not too keen on demands...rather hear a response on other matters
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I don't play pvp because the barriers for entry are too ridiculous to regularly get good groups together or to join pugs.
So yeah, enjoy the bots, you deserve them. /notsigned
EDIT:And pve is busted to hell anyway so i don't mind the economy getting flooded with cheap cupcakes.
Essence Snow
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By let everyone do what they want you mean cheat and exploit the game?
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Danny Used Frenzy
As a member of a botting community and contributing bot and script writer, /signed.
Meridon
For a business, transparency towards it's clients is a virtue. Why Anet/NCSoft doesn't seem to get that is a mystery to me.
/signed.
/signed.
Karate Jesus
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Originally Posted by Aleta
Neither do I. Also where do your estimates come from?
I don't believe this game has been abandoned. However with a limited amount of warm bodies to go around I would guess they do the best they can. Respectfully requesting a response would be better. |
Unfortunately, we're beyond the point of "respectfully requesting" anything. Anet hasn't done anything about the JQ bots or bots like the Bergen bot for years, and it's led us here. We're to the point where they need to do something or we'd might as well hand GW over to the bots.
Ninja Ninja
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^this.
I don't play pvp because the barriers for entry are too ridiculous to regularly get good groups together or to join pugs. So yeah, enjoy the bots, you deserve them. /notsigned |
II Lucky Charm II
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Originally Posted by Karate Jesus
Well, as most of you probably know, botting has grown exponentially in Guild Wars over the last few months. By the latest estimates, over 5,000 players are currently running a popular botting program (that I'm not allowed to mention here) and many of them use more than one account to bot. That's not even counting the absurd number of players who use other botting programs or write their own bots.
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Originally Posted by Karate Jesus
This doesn't just affect one aspect of the game. Currently, there are RA (glad) farming bots, raptor farming bots, numerous interrupt bots, gamer point farming bots, Dragon Arena bots, Rollerbeetle bots, spike bots, and soon a full team of HA farming bots.
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Originally Posted by Karate Jesus
If this anniversary didn't draw attention to it, I don't know what will. People were selling over 1,000 stacks of Cupcakes in Kamadan at any given moment during the event because of this problem and Codex, RA, JQ, and FA are a mess due to these (soon enough, HA will be too).
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There is no need to fix any of these bots. Banning players won't help either. Just join the botter and help make this community a better place. If everyone bots, we will all be on even field.
NOT SIGNED
Danny Used Frenzy
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The estimate, as Errant said, came from the site where you can download the bots openly. It's likely an underestimated amount, but it's the only figure we have.
Unfortunately, we're beyond the point of "respectfully requesting" anything. Anet hasn't done anything about the JQ bots or bots like the Bergen bot for years, and it's led us here. We're to the point where they need to do something or we'd might as well hand GW over to the bots. |
The actual number of unique users is closer to about 1,500, but that doesn't include copies that the downloaders have individually distributed, nor the multiple accounts they're using.
I'm sure there's easily 5,000 accounts, though.